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Rare Footage Captures John F. Kennedy on His Last Night Alive
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe night before he was assassinated, President John F. Kennedy stopped at the Rice Hotel in Houston to meet with local Hispanic leaders and to deliver a short speech. The president's appearance around 9 p.m. on Nov. 21, 1963, was captured by a home movie camera, and now that footage has been made public for the first time. Roy Botello shot the 8mm film and then kept it in a drawer for 47 years, according to ABC News. Last year he donated it to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, an institution in Dallas dedicated to the JFK assassination. The museum restored the footage and has made it ...
Americans Say Reagan Is Greatest President, Poll Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNumber 40 is No. 1. Just in time for Presidents Day, Ronald Reagan tops a list of the nation's greatest chief executives, ahead of Abraham Lincoln, according to a new survey out Friday. The Gallup Poll puts Reagan, with 19 percent, in the top spot for the third time. Reagan also occupied the position in 2001 and 2005 -- and he has been in the top three eight times since Gallup started asking the "greatest president" question 12 years ago. Lincoln garnered 14 percent, followed very closely by Bill Clinton, with 13 percent. John F. Kennedy, who was on top in 2000 and tied with Lincoln in ...
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan: Three Speeches, One Nation
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyInauguration Day comes only once every four years, but each January we are reminded of previous presidential arrivals -- and leave-takings. This week includes both the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address and Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation three days earlier. And because his 100th birthday is just around the corner, Ronald Reagan's 1989 farewell address lingers this year in the collective American mind as well. They are speeches worth remembering. The most ambitious of the three was the least artfully delivered. Dwight Eisenhower delivered his White ...
Sargent Shriver, a Peace Corps Founder and Liberal Activist, Is Dead at 95
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySargent Shriver, first director of the Peace Corps, the 1972 Democratic vice presidential nominee and a trusted Kennedy in-law who was known as the family troubleshooter, is dead at the age of 95. Shriver, who had Alzheimer's disease, was hospitalized earlier in the week in Bethesda, Md., a Washington, D.C. suburb. Shriver's wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died in 2009 at the age of 88. In his day, Shriver was a handsome and dedicated public figure who took the helm of the Peace Corps for President Kennedy when it was created in 1961 and went on to lead the ...
Ranking Former Presidents: JFK Still on Top, Clinton Rises While Carter Falls
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe public perceptions of former presidents in the modern political era have sometimes changed for the better or worse, compared to how they were seen while in office, but the one constant in Gallup's polling of views of nine chief executives who served during the last 50 years is that John F. Kennedy still comes out on top. Eighty-five percent of those surveyed by Gallup Nov. 19-21 said they approved of how Kennedy performed in office, about the same percentage as in 2006. Gallup says Kennedy has consistently ranked first since it started asking the question in 1990. Ronald Reagan comes in ...
Mark Twain, Tom Friedman, and Quotations Too Good to Be Correctly Attributed
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyOne of the hazards of fact-checking others -- or dressing down politicians who peddle preposterously bogus material -- is spreading your own misinformation while doing so. This was the booby trap Thomas L. Friedman and the New York Times set for themselves Tuesday in a column headlined, unfortunately, "Too Good to Check." I yield to no one in my admiration for Friedman, with whom I covered the White House in the Clinton years and later interviewed. As far as I know, I'm the only one who ever put forward Tom's name for consideration of the Nobel Peace Prize -- my thought being that he hardly ...
Twilight of a Duchess: The Last Living Mitford Sister Does Manhattan
By James Daubs - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- Seventy years ago, a story about one of the Mitford sisters would have been hot political news. Especially a story about one of the two fascist sisters (Diana and Unity), or one about the communist sister (Jessica). The novelist sister (Nancy) made fewer headlines but sold a lot of books. As Deborah Mitford Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, reminded a large audience at the Frick museum last night, every time their mother, Lady Redesdale, saw a headline beginning "Peer's Daughter," she knew one of the children was in trouble again. And trouble they were, and terribly ...
Casting One's Vote: Fathoming a Private Ritual With a Great Public Consequence
By Robert Schmuhl - Politics DailyOn the first page of the first volume of "The Making of the President" series, Theodore H. White describes the mysterious nature of Election Day. Noting that on Nov. 8, 1960, Republicans went to the polls during the day while Democrats tended to cast their ballots later in the afternoon and early evening, he builds to a larger point about the collective ritual then taking place. "All of this is invisible," White writes, "for it is the essence of the act that as it happens it is a mystery in which millions of people each fit one fragment of a total secret together, none of them knowing the ...
JFK Speechwriter Theodore Sorensen Dies
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyTheodore Sorensen, best known as the chief speechwriter for former President John F. Kennedy, died Sunday from complications stemming from a stroke he suffered a week ago, according to his widow, Gillian Sorensen. Sorensen, 82, was not only Kennedy's speechwriter but one of his most trusted advisers. While Kennedy is remembered for the 1961 inaugural address in which he declared, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," Sorensen became known, too, for his part in drafting the speech. Sorensen's title in the White House was "special counsel," but the ...
6 Decades at Justice: Career Touched by McCarthyism, Mafia and Watergate
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe comforting, even noble tale of John C. Keeney is a story too often left untold in official Washington. It is the story of a man who rarely tooted his own horn, who did his job, who minded his own business, who selflessly filled in when others failed, and who enjoyed what he calls today a "smooth career" of extraordinary public service. No matter which party runs Capitol Hill or the White House, Washington itself wouldn't work without government officials like Keeney. Here's an illustration of his mettle. In 2000, to commemorate Keeney's nearly 50 years of work as an attorney at the ...
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